[LAU] How to handle large amount of pdf files (music sheets) for collaborative usage

nescivi nescivi at gmail.com
Mon Apr 5 11:36:08 EDT 2010


On Saturday 03 April 2010 11:56:23 Nils Hammerfest wrote:

> The problem here is that those PDFs are generated by scans. So in fact we
>  are dealing with mostly images of notation here. The main tasks here are
>  to add/delete pages, rotate single pages or "all uneven" etc. or crop
>  borders for a section, selection, all etc. and in the end save them again.
>  I think with some scripts it should be possible to do the
>  decrompress/compress thing from pdf->images->pdf but still this leaves the
>  point of pagewise editing. I don't know for sure but I think gimp or
>  inkscape cannot do this.

pdfpages package for latex can do some of this.
You can include specific pages from a pdf document, or from several, and do 
some simple operations to them.

sincerely,
Marije


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